Research Reports

This report details everything that aggregate ad serving data can tell you about click-through rate, interaction rate, interaction time, expansion rate, expansion time and video complete rate. Each of these metrics can be used as an indicator of success for your rich media campaigns.

In each section, we'll focus on a specific metric of success. We'll show you how the choice of ad format and creative size can affect campaign performance. We'll end each section with industry benchmarks and advice on how to compare your campaign's performance to that of other advertisers in the same industry vertical. (PDF: 476K)

The term "click fraud" has gained widespread attention in the media and throughout our industry over the past two years. Ad servers and networks do indeed have to protect their customers against not only malicious clicks, but also largely inadvertent invalid clicks arising from robots and spiders in the ad environment that do not obey standard Web server rules and robots.txt files.

This paper outlines the state of invalid clicks in our industry, what DoubleClick is doing to combat invalid clicks, and how to assess the ROI of your click-based online advertising, and in particular search campaigns, for existence and levels of invalid clicking. (PDF: 72.4K)

Video is the hottest new format for online advertising. DoubleClick analyzed over 300 video campaigns by 130 advertisers during a four month period of 2006. The objective of this analysis was to identify major trends in the performance metrics of video ad campaigns by industry vertical, ad format, ad size, and ad length. There were several key findings including click through rate for video on average being about five times higher than those for image ads. (PDF: 229K)

Word of mouth marketing is all the buzz. But how exactly can marketers make it work? As part of our DoubleClick Touchpoints IV consumer survey, we identified a segment of respondents deemed to be "influencers" and studied how they make purchase decisions differently from the rest of us. Key conclusions include they are super media savvy and pay close attention to advertising, both positively and negatively. (PDF: 686KB)

DoubleClick Touchpoints IV consumer survey is our fourth annual report about what influences people’s purchase decisions, online and offline, across 15 product and service categories. The findings, based on responses from more than 6,000 U.S. Internet uses, show that consumers are more likely to "view through" an online ad than to click on one, that online video is the most popular online activity of a list of types of emerging media, and that people value online ads more for ongoing learning than discovery. (PDF: 652K)

Twelve years after the first appearance of web-based advertising, the industry now stands as a legitimate heavyweight. Growth rates average over 30% annually; new advertising techniques and opportunities arise daily. More than ever, the influx of advertisers and their dollars creates a need to set your strategies apart. This white paper reveals 10 key insights and advice on how to gain a critical edge in your online advertising initiatives. At the end, further recommended readings will help you get the most out of your online advertising campaigns. (PDF: 686KB)

This research-packed white paper examines several key issues in rich media, including which industries are the leading adopters of rich media, how marketers are measuring audience engagement and brand impact, and what new emerging technologies, such as online video, have them most excited. The paper also includes a DART Motif case study from Digitas and a leading CPG marketer, best practice advice and additional insights. With research from Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance, Dynamic Logic and other sources. (PDF: 634KB)

DoubleClick and U.K.-based analytics group E-Consultancy examine online advertising trends in Europe. The report focuses particularly on Europe’s three largest markets for online marketing spending: the U.K., France and Germany, paying particular attention to trends in rich media and search marketing in those markets. (PDF: 376K)